How to make comments permanently appear on PDFs rather than icons

How can I make a comment that I have written on a PDF as a permanently visible sticky note rather than an icon which only displays the text when someone clicks on it or hovers over it? I want the comment to be visible at all times so that when it is printed or viewed on screen, it shows the full comment.

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Not really. In your first comment, you said "Insert Text" via Tools>Edit PDF. That's very different. That's editing the actual text of the PDF, which is not what the asker wants. He wants a comment that is always visible. So it is NOT Tools>Edit PDF>Add Text. It is Tools>Comment>Add text box. Regards, Joe

> use the comment function so that others who also want to reply comment can also add it there. I want a threaded comment box not a text box

OK, so you want to use the Add sticky note Comment tool to build up a thread when users hit Reply, then Post, and you want the sticky note with the complete thread of comments to be always visible. If I got that right, the answer is, you can't do it, as far as I know. Regards, Joe

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We eventually came down to the clarification in this thread that the asker wants to use the "Add sticky note" Comment tool to build up a thread when users hit "Reply", then "Post", and wants the sticky note with the complete thread of comments to be always visible. I believe that this is one of those cases where the answer is "you can’t do that", but if anyone can prove otherwise, please let us know. In the meantime, I selected the "you can’t do that" posts. There is no "Best" answer, so I chose the first such post as the Accepted Solution and the others as Assisted Solutions, but I split the points evenly between the two participating experts. Regards, Joe